When the squad leader came back, he saw several people wearing gray cloth military uniforms standing next to the corpse burning pit outside Dagu Town. He was stunned for a moment and waved to the soldiers around him: "Erdan, you guys are following us. I’ll go over and take a look.”
Although there were thirty or forty people in the squad leader's group, they were all new recruits who had just been recruited from Shangheyan and Xiaheyan. They were all farmers half an hour ago. It was impossible for the squad leader to take them to the battlefield, and they had no weapons.
However, the squad leader also knew that the people in gray cloth uniforms were the Eighth Route Army. The People's Liberation Army and the Eighth Route Army were inseparable. He didn't know why these people appeared in Dagu Town, so he naturally wanted to ask.
When the security squad brought by Li Yunlong saw a squad leader approaching with several soldiers in camouflage uniforms, they all placed their hands on the handles of their guns in caution.
Li Yunlong's security squad was all equipped with shell guns. Although he only brought a few people over, the firepower was still sufficient.
Duan Peng blocked Li Yunlong with his body and whispered: "Captain, Xie Baoqing's people are here."
Li Yunlong hummed and turned around. The corpse-burning pit in front of him was really shocking. Even though he had been on the battlefield for a long time, he was shocked by the scene before him.
There must be thousands of Japs burning in this pit, right?
A fire has been burning since yesterday and is still burning today. The smell of burning can be smelled more than ten miles away. Li Yunlong and the others came here after seeing the thick smoke and smelling the smell.
There are traces of battles everywhere along the way. Bullet craters and bullet casings are everywhere. From time to time, you can see patches of frozen blood on the ground.
The soldiers of the guard squad also found a broken 38-meter cover and several steel helmets in the field, confirming that a fierce battle had indeed occurred here.
Looking from a distance, Dagu Town has been reduced to ruins. From this, we can also judge how tragic the battle was.
However, it would be a big mistake for Li Yunlong to judge the battle situation based on these alone.
The fact that Dagu Town turned into a scorched earth was indeed caused by the Japanese, but it was not caused during the battle, and it was not on the same level.
But Li Yunlong didn't know. When he saw the situation in front of him, he would only think that Xie Baoqing's troops were fighting with the Japanese here. Little did he know that Xie Baoqing was crushing the enemy with a few tanks throughout the whole process.
"What do you do?" The squad leader and others stood not far away from Li Yunlong and his party. They did not raise their guns to show any goodwill, but their hands were on the triggers or grenades.
Li Yunlong pushed aside Duan Peng who was blocking him, looked at the squad leader and said, "I am Li Yunlong of the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army. Take me to see Xie Baoqing."
Hearing Li Yunlong introduce himself, the squad leader raised his eyebrows slightly and almost impulsively pointed Thomson's gun at Li Yunlong: "Are you Li Yunlong? Li Yunlong who killed our leader, Heiyun Village."
Li Yunlong puffed up his chest and said, "That's me."
The squad leader hesitated and said, "You wait here, I'll report."
The squad leader took off Thomson and Erdan, exchanged their guns, and whispered: "You guys stay here and watch them. Don't let them run around. No matter what they ask, just say you don't know."
Erdan grunted and pulled the bolt of the gun to fire. He held Thomson in his hand. Erdan was not afraid of the seven or eight people like Li Yunlong on the opposite side.
The squad leader quickly ran back and took the new recruits into Dagu Town and went straight to the regiment headquarters.
Of course he knew that Xie Tian was not at the regiment headquarters now, and that the current top commander of Dagu Town was Zhang Keqin, the platoon leader of the seventh platoon of the Second Battalion. He naturally had to report to Zhang Keqin.
Seeing Xie Baoqing and other soldiers surrounded in three directions, Li Yunlong became happy.
Damn it, I even enjoyed this kind of treatment when I came to Dagu Town. Xie Baoqing, you are really capable.
Fortunately, the first squad leader came back quickly. He saluted Li Yunlong and said: "Captain Li, our platoon leader invites you to have tea at the regiment headquarters of Dagu Town. If Commander Li is unwilling to enter the town, please come back." Right. Our platoon leader said that Commander Xie has given instructions that as long as the team is fighting against the Japanese, they are our friends, and they should treat each other with courtesy."
The platoon leader invited me to the regiment headquarters?
Xie Baoqing was really arrogant. He didn't come out to greet him in person. He even sent a platoon leader to tell him that if he didn't want to enter the town, he could just go back.
Xie Baoqing is trying to show me off.
I've wiped out Heiyun Village for you. Even if your Dagu Town is like a dragon's pond and a tiger's den, I still have to try my best since I'm here.
"Let's go into town and let's try what Xie Baoqing's tea is."
Li Yunlong waved his hand and strode towards Dagu Town.
Even in this corpse-burning pit, he still wanted to meet Xie Baoqing.
At the entrance of Changlong Silk and Satin Shop, the seventh platoon leader Zhang Keqin stood in the street, with the platoon deputy Ma Xiangjie standing beside him. The two saw Li Yunlong and his entourage riding slowly behind the first squad leader. After Li Yunlong dismounted, the two stood at attention and paid respect to Li Yunlong. A courtesy, neither arrogant nor humble.
They are not an army, there is nothing to be humbled by, not to mention that Li Yunlong has a grudge against the leader.
As long as he enters Dagu Town, no matter who he is, he is a piece of meat on the chopping block of the People's Liberation Army Independent Regiment. There are now several shooting positions aimed at this place. As long as he gives the order, even Li Yunlong will be punched with several transparent holes.
Li Yunlong casually gestured with his riding crop as a return gift. He looked at Zhang Keqin with a dark face and asked, "Where is your boss?"
Zhang Keqin put down his hand and stared at Li Yunlong and said: "I'm sorry, Captain Li, we don't have a big boss here."
Li Yunlong frowned and looked at Zhang Keqin and said: "You have a lot of courage. Who are you talking to? You are neither up nor down. I am the leader of the regular army. Who does Xie Baoqing mean to him? He is a bandit who flies up a branch and becomes a Phoenix. If I hadn't been merciful at the beginning, he would have gone to see the King of Hell. Tell him to come out and see me."
Zhang Keqin stared at Li Yunlong with a straight face and said: "Then I would like to thank Captain Li for showing mercy on behalf of our regiment leader. In fact, I also want to thank Captain Li. When my father, a dozen fellow villagers and I walked through Zhaojiayu begging for food, it was Captain Li who The commander asked his men to reward us with a few cornbread. If Commander Li hadn't chased us away, we wouldn't have met Commander Xie. If Commander Xie hadn't taken us in, hundreds of us folks would have died of hunger and cold. Died in the wilderness."
Li Yunlong was stunned for a moment, stared at Zhang Keqin and asked: "Are you that group of refugees who escaped from Henan?"
Zhang Keqin said forcefully: "That's not the case now. The young and strong among us are now Commander Xie, soldiers of the Independent Regiment of the People's Liberation Army. Commander Xie, the old, weak, women and children, has also made arrangements for them. When the spring comes next year, we will be in Dagu." The town has a home.”
This Li Yunlong was embarrassed.
